‘Axeman’ puts title on the line in China showdown
World Boxing Association home-grown Jamaican-born featherweight champion Nicholas Walters (23-0, 19 KOs) will defend his title against Vic Darchinyan (39-6-1, 28KO) amidst a fight card loaded with some of the best featherweights in the world, at the Cotai Arena, Venetian Resort, Macao.
It is a fight in which both Walters and Darchinyan boldly vow to steal the show when the two collide for Walters’ version of the featherweight crown – one of three featherweight title fights on the show.
Born January 4, 1986, the Jamaican professional boxer won the WBA’s vacant featherweight title on December 8, 2012, against Colombian Daulis Prescott during the annual KO Drugs Festival in Jamaica. He knocked Daulis out in the
seventh round.
Born in the second city of Montego Bay, Walters attended the Roehampton Primary and Anchovy High School and is nicknamed ‘The Axeman’. He is the son of former boxer Job.
He won the WBA Fedelatin title in 2009, and successfully defended it twice.
According to reports coming out of China, Walters will be engaged in a heck of a battle to remain champion. Given all of the talent appearing on the card, anything other than a memorable performance will run the risk of fighters quickly getting lost in the shuffle.
And to guard against that, it is said that “Walters and Darchinyan are prepared to step it up a notch even at the risk of suffering a loss”.
Darchinyan is something of a knockout specialist with 28 from his 39 fights and is sounding a warning as he is reported to have said say: “I won eight titles and all by KOs. It is just inside of me. You will see the same in me on Saturday (today). I’m ready to fight, get the knockout, and win
the title.”
Walters with 19 KOs from 23 fights knows a little something about knockouts as the 28-year-old Jamaican puncher has scored nine stoppages in his last 10 fights. This includes winning both his title fights through the KO route.
While a knockout is not necessarily all that is on the Jamaican’s mind pleasing the crowd is high among the lists of his priorities.
– Hurbun Willliams
